Pochvovedenie

(Soil Science), the monthly journal of the section of chemical-technological and biological sciences of the Presidium of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR. Pochvovede-nie is published in Moscow, where it was founded in 1899 by V. V. Ototskii, one of the closest students and colleagues of V. V. Dokuchaev. Publication was interrupted in 1917 and resumed in 1924. The journal is intended for soil scientists, geographers, geobotanists, hydrologists, land reclaimers, agronomists, agricultural chemists, and agricultural and silvicultural specialists. It discusses matters of current concern in the USSR and abroad. Circulation, 4,800 (1977).